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Article published In: Revue Romane
Vol. 50:1 (2015) ► pp.81–98

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Au commencement il était le Soi

L’herméneutique du soi et tant que début de l’herméneutique du monde dans la Recherche de Marcel Proust

 | Pennsylvania State University

Article language: French

Published online: 10 September 2015
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https://doi.org/10.1075/rro.50.1.06med
By reviewing two famous episodes, in which the Narrator fails to efficiently communicate with Gilberte and Albertine, we attempt to construct a theory, able to explain Marcel’s communicative strategy. In order for a desired meaning to appear in the addressee’s mind, it first behooves the issuer to present the latter with a hermeneutical problem. The article argues that the communication, envisioned by the Narrator, can succeed only if the issuer of the message also becomes an interpreter of himself. As soon as this scattering of Ego happens, a hermeneutic situation presents itself as an operating room, where a fragmented Ego undergoes its reconstitution back into a coherent communicating entity.
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